Clare

greatest charitable force in her town. However, in Passing, the loss of the sense of identity lead to negative consequences. Clare initially chose to rid herself of her old identity as an african american for a better social standing. However, she tried to reclaim her old sense of identity, associated with Irene, her family, and her friends in Harlem. While this initially lead to Clare rediscovering parts of her old sense of identity, and building it back in Harlem, her selfish personality in…

when discussing black children. The three African American characters, Gertude, Irene and Clare, were friends from High School who meet for coffee to reunite. Gertrude and Clare both pass as white, although Gertrude’s husband knows her “true” race, while Irene does not pass and lives in Brooklyn. While at lunch, Clare discusses that she cannot have another child due to the fear that it would appear black. Clare concurs that even though her husband does not care for the race of the child, she too…

and black communities. In Passing the two characters Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry are two black women passing to be white. Throughout the story there have been feuds between Irene and Clare. In the article “The Veils of the Law: Race and Sexuality” the author argues that Passing subtly delineates the interracial sexual attraction of Irene Redfield for Clare. I agree with the fact that Irene is sexually attracted to Clare; however it could also be jealousy. The author has some really great…

In Passing, Nella Larsen explores the options the African American women had and the choices they made in 1920s. The novel’s plot delves into the relationship between Irene Redfield, the protagonist, and Clare Kendry, who is, arguably, the novel’s antagonist. Even though race is a major theme in the novel, but a closer reading would conclude that pursing security in marriage and society is what drives every main character in the book. Irene Redfield, a complex biracial character, is…

go to a tea party at Clare’s home where she meets Gertrude, but more importantly she meets Jack Bellew, Clare’s husband. In this scene Irene is exposed to the tranny of Jack Bellew and how race ethics has forced Clare into becoming a white woman. Clare’s husband Jack Bellew who calls Clare “nig” on the basis that “when [they] got first married, she was as white as...a lily. But I declare she gettin’ darker and darker. I tell her if she don’t look out, she 'll wake up one of these days and find…

Learning How To Drown, a musical written by Patricia Noonan and Amanda Jacobs in 2007, revolves around a the love story of a young couple, Emma and John, and their parallel to Emma’s grandparents, Aidan and Clare. The play illustrates the importance of fables and the balance between the themes of love and freedom. Emma, portrayed by Caroline Portu, is a young woman who is questioning the proposal of her long time boyfriend, John, while stranded in their house due to a hurricane. Paired with the…

this fact hasn’t change. While Clare’s husband found that Clare is not white, she understood that she won’t be able to survive anymore in such racist society, so she pushed herself through the window and ended her life. According to Larsen “Clare stood at the window…she seemed unaware of any danger or uncaring. There was even a faint smile on her full, red lips, and in her shining eyes” (238-239). This paragraph represents that when Clare knew that the secret is revealed now, there is nothing…

novel by Jennifer E. Smith about a couple that are going to different colleges on two different sides of the country. The main characters are Clare, Aidan, Scotty, Riley and Stella. Clare and Aidan have been together for two years. They've survived high school together but, one thing that they don’t know that they can survive is college without each other. Clare is headed to the East Coast to New Hampshire and Aidan will be on his way to the West Coast to California. They have to come up with a…

regarding Clare seems to disappear for some time. "It was that, partly, that has made me want to see other people. It just swooped down and changed everything. If it hadn't been for that, I'd have gone on to the end, never seeing any of you."(pg 100) was the moment that I thought that maybe just maybe Irene and Clare would be friends again. You can see that Clare wanted to come back to her true self, yet she wasn't really able to do so. After reading part one of the book I was convinced that…

Irene’s truest and deepest desires and weaknesses are projected onto Clare. Simply, Clare is Irene’s double (Wagner 145). The image of Clare that Irene portrays to readers is a depiction of herself. Throughout the novel readers receive a biased representation of Clare; she is selfish, empty-headed, dangerous, evasive, chaotic, and racially unaware, when in fact Irene is exposing her own insecurities. Evidence of doubling…